Augustus

2,882 people in the United States were counted with the surname Augustus in the 2020 census, making it the 10,608th most common in the country. That is about one person in 104,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,882
Rank: 10,608th
How common: 1 in 104,000
Per 100,000: 0.96

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Augustus described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Black, not Hispanic 61.3%
White, not Hispanic 29.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Augustus

Seimone Augustus (born 1984)American basketball player
Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1772–1822)Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg
Rudolph Augustus, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1627–1704)Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Prince of Wolfenbüttel

People named Augustus with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Augustus

Also a first name

Augustus has been given to 21,690 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2024. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.